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GOP members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee promise that Clinton will face a “tough but respectful” grilling when she testifies about the Obama administration’s handling of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya that killed four Americans.

After all, the outgoing secretary is still on the mend from a concussion and subsequent blood clot she suffered after a bad fall over the holidays. She served in the Senate with many of those she will appear before. And she has close friendships with Republicans like Sen. John McCain, perhaps the most vocal critic of the administration’s response to Benghazi.

“We’re glad that she is recovering fully from her injury and illness, and we’re glad to have her back,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), a member of the panel who joined all but two senators in voting to confirm Clinton back in 2009. “But what we’ve been wanting to know is: What did she know, and when did she know it?”

Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, in his debut as top Republican on the panel, told POLITICO Wednesday he’s not interested in “gotcha questions but serious policy questions about Benghazi.” “It is personal to me,” said Corker, who traveled to Libya shortly after the attacks. “The folks on the ground were left on a tether without any support.”

Clinton could appear as early as Jan. 22, and it’s expected that the Foreign Relations panel will hold a hearing the same week for her nominated successor — the committee’s current chairman, Sen. John Kerry.

The Massachusetts Democrat will not chair Clinton’s hearing or his own confirmation hearing, Senate aides tell POLITICO. He has been attending closed-door briefings at the State Department, preparing for his confirmation hearing.

With Kerry absent, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) may be the senator to watch when Clinton testifies. Rubio has repeatedly called on the secretary to testify about the Benghazi episode on cable news, during Senate hallway interviews and in newspaper op-ed pages. And as a prospective presidential candidate, Rubio will be directing pointed questions at a possible rival for the White House in 2016.

“Last month, while on a trip to Peru, Secretary Clinton said she that she took full responsibility for the events in Benghazi. I take her at her word,” Rubio wrote late last year in a Fox News op-ed. “… She should explain why her department failed to adequately secure the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi and what her personal level of knowledge was of Libya security deficiencies.”

Democrats see Clinton’s final curtain call on Capitol Hill as an unnecessary charade. Lawmakers have held countless closed-door briefings and hearings on the matter. The Senate Foreign Relations panel met last month to review findings of an independent inquiry that “leadership” and “systemic” failures led to the security breach.